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Alfred Street School

The original school building was destroyed in the great fire of 1901, together with the master's house.

The school in Alfred Street in 2005

and the College Street view

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School Board - Dec 1877-Jun '78	1909 Weather	Outing 1928	Sports 1956
School Board - July-Dec 1878	Infant Gallery	Swimming Gala 1931	At School in 1962
Prizes 1878	Infant School	1932 Scholarships	Visit to Sywell 1962
Headmasters	Infant School - notes	Xmas Parties 1932	Concerts & Plays 1960s
Teachers	Photos c1910	Â Alfred St School Scouts	Memories - Peter Hunt
New School Opens 1879	Photo 1912	Drama	Grass Play Area 1986
Board Schools 1881	Junior Gallery	Bomb - 1940	Memorial Garden
Photo 1887	Attendance Medals	School re-opens 1942	Snippets
Miss Clipston Resigns 1893	Reconscruction - 1913	1951 Nativity	Memories of an Evacuee
Photo 1897	Dunkley Brothers 1916	Mrs Struggles' Class of 1951	Alfred Street Cubs
Fire 1901	Garden Land 1917 prizes	Football Teams
Girls' School Needlework	Blackberry Picking 1918	Mr Burnham's Class of 1952	Memories of the Bomb
Girls - Photo 1906	Molly Sadler 1923	Outings	Blue Plaque 2010
Football 1908	Outing 1925	Miss Bull's Class of 1952	Reunion 2010

Log Books General School & Alfred Street Board School
Mixed then Boys' School	Girls' School		Mixed School
April 1872 - June 1877	June 1887 - Aug 1888	Sept 1899 - Aug 1902	May 1916 - Apr 1919
July 1877 - Dec 1881	Sept 1888 - July 1890	Sept 1902 - Aug 1906	May 1919 - April 1921
Jan 1882 - Dec 1886	Aug 1890 - July 1892	Sept 1906 - July 1909	May 1921 - Apr 1924
Jan 1887 - Dec 1891	Aug 1892 - Aug 1894	Aug 1909 - Aug 1912	Apr 1924 - April 1927
Jan 1892 - July 1897	Sept 1894 - Aug 1896	Sept 1912 - July 1914	Apr 1927 - Dec 1928
	Sept 1896 - Aug 1899		Jan 1929 - Dec 1930
Mixed again from 1914 but next Log Book starts May 1916			Jan 1931 - Dec 1933
			Jan 1934 - Dec 1937
			Jan 1938 - Dec 1940
			Jan 1941 - Dec 1942
			Jan 1943 - Aug 1945

This photograph has been sent to us by email. It shows the whole school and grounds with outbuildings, and was taken on 25th May 1985. At the back of the playground the outside toilet block was still standing.

College street was still a two-way street for traffic, and Cave's/Eaton's factory is still standing (bottom of picture). The roof in the left hand bottom corner is the Post Office.

The land to the right is now a grassed area and the playground areas are combined.